How to Use susceptibility in a Sentence

susceptibility

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  • A weak immune system causes increased susceptibility to disease.
  • Oregon State scored on touchdown runs of 80 and 78 yards, and that sort of big-play susceptibility would be a bad sign for OSU.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 25 July 2021
  • The region’s susceptibility to earthquakes makes ruins as much a part of the landscape as palm trees.
    — Marlene Daut, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Mass susceptibility has gotten worse in the 25 years since The Truman Show.
    — Armond White, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The researchers cannot say if blood type is a direct cause of the differences in susceptibility.
    — Maggie Fox, CNN, 17 June 2020
  • Fortunately for dogs, the researchers found that man's best friend has a low susceptibility to the virus.
    — Peter Martinez, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2020
  • So that just means the susceptibility is high in humans.
    — Cnn Staff, CNN, 18 June 2020
  • For one thing, many of the regions growing in susceptibility to hurricanes are ill-equipped to handle storms with winds of 100 mph or more.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
  • The second force is the susceptibility of the population exposed to the virus.
    — NBC News, 14 July 2021
  • The paper was based on DNA lab analyses, not on any findings about ethnic susceptibility to the virus.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • But the point is the fruit’s susceptibility to collective rot.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 June 2020
  • But many couples still harbor fears about their guests’ susceptibility to the virus.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 29 May 2021
  • But susceptibility to illness isn’t as simple as the odds of being exposed to someone with a cold.
    — Elana Spivack, Scientific American, 21 June 2023
  • An abundance of YouTube videos of guilty Labradors attests to human susceptibility to sheepish Labrador smiles and wiles.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Next, Cadwell and his team explored the impact of the protein on tissue from the guts of people with the Crohn’s susceptibility gene and also from people without the gene.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The novel tells a thrilling story about the susceptibility of religion and faith.
    — Jacy Topps, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2021
  • The area was first cleared as a firebreak in 1917, a wise recognition of Anchorage’s susceptibility to fire.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2020
  • With all the drama of its big, heavily veined glossy leaves comes some high maintenance in terms of its susceptibility to plant pests and diseases.
    — Gina Mayfield, Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The main negatives with these trees are their susceptibility to oak wilt and arguably being overused.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Italians from Tuscany were ranked by the author as among those with the lowest susceptibility.
    — Eleanor J. Murray, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Dogs, however, have a very low susceptibility to the virus.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Steel quality affects the sharpness, strength and durability of the knife — as well as its susceptibility to stains and rust marks.
    — Katy Severson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2021
  • An online source suggests that the decline in my bpm is slow and can indicate susceptibility to a heart attack.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 6 June 2022
  • Yes, the world is stacked against us, but our collective susceptibility to dumb diets and quick fixes doesn’t redound to our credit.
    — Tamar Haspel, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • But this can have side effects, such as greater susceptibility to disease.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 19 Nov. 2020
  • This scenario is not at all implausible because, aside from mink, some other species may have a high susceptibility to the virus.
    — Lars Fischer, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The fact that many of the trees felled by the storm fall into these two categories seems to have much more to do with their relative abundance around town rather than any innate susceptibility to wind damage.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But there’s another vector of susceptibility, and a pretty boring one at that, that most people might not think all that much about.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 1 Mar. 2021
  • In so doing, the United States would concentrate on what the world’s peoples have in common—susceptibility to this and many other viruses—regardless of the nature of their governments.
    — Helene Gayle, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Or was there something in my eyes, some eagerness, some susceptibility in my expression?
    — Hugo Hamilton, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2024

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